My 2TB Samsung External hard drive has issues. One time it is labled Removable Disk drive and when i open it, i get a message 'insert drive' and another time it has the correct lable and i can open it and view my files. What can i do to make sure that the drive is always available.
External Drive Disappearing
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Smallfilou
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- Feb 25, 2014
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I could think of 2 options:
- the drive was disconnected without having been undocked. You should run checkdisk and if necessary repair partition table next time drive appears.
- Sometimes improper cabling/power supply to external drive can have those effects
If you had that drive without a problem before and never disconnected improperly, chances are the controler (which makes the conversion from usb to sata) has a problem (or the drive in the enclosure has moved and has a bad connection). That is (with broken psu) most often cause a drive does not work properly. I do not believe your data to be at great risk.
- the drive was disconnected without having been undocked. You should run checkdisk and if necessary repair partition table next time drive appears.
- Sometimes improper cabling/power supply to external drive can have those effects
If you had that drive without a problem before and never disconnected improperly, chances are the controler (which makes the conversion from usb to sata) has a problem (or the drive in the enclosure has moved and has a bad connection). That is (with broken psu) most often cause a drive does not work properly. I do not believe your data to be at great risk.
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